Sabayon is a Gentoo-based distribution which follows the works-out-of-the-box philosophy, aiming to give the user a wide number of applications that are ready for use and a self-configured operating system. Sabayon offers the user an easy-to-use workspace with a captivating look, good hardware detection and a large number of up-to-date software packages installed by default, with additional software available from a repository. Sabayon is available in several flavors featuring respectively the KDE, GNOME and Xfce desktop environments.

Ettore Di Giacinto has announced the release of new installation media for the Sabayon distribution. Sabayon is a rolling release distribution based on Gentoo and the project offers many different editions and flavours. The new snapshot, Sabayon 16.11, offers users version 4.8 of the Linux kernel, an update to the Anaconda system installer and the latest KDE Plasma desktop packages. "This Sabayon release is the result of team work, time and care, to provide you with a stable, solid and bleeding edge release. There are a lot of exciting changes in this release, here are a few: new Anaconda installer, with tons of bug fixes; latest Linux kernel 4.8; latest KDE Plasma; renewed artwork; new greeter; improvements and fixes to Entropy...." The project has also revamped its website with this new release. Further details on the project's release cycle, features and website design can be found in the release announcement. Download (pkglist): Sabayon_Linux_16.11_amd64_GNOME.iso (2,255MB, MD5, torrent), Sabayon_Linux_16.11_amd64_KDE.iso (2,580MB, MD5, torrent), Sabayon_Linux_16.11_amd64_Xfce.iso (1,771MB, MD5, torrent), Sabayon_Linux_16.11_amd64_MATE.iso (1,662MB, MD5, torrent).

The Sabayon project produces a Gentoo-based distribution that provides a great deal of functionality out of the box. The Sabayon team has released Sabayon 16.04 which features a number of updates to the installer, kernel and desktop applications. Perhaps the most significant change though is Sabayon's new community repository. "The Sabayon Community Repositories infrastructure will build repositories for the community, and it is managed by the community itself. There is a main Community repository while there is room to add other repositories, "slots", that SCR Developers are free to use. More on how it works will come later. Currently we are in alpha state, but we are having great results, some packages are already available to the public. The goal here is to have a system like AUR for Arch and PPA for Ubuntu where Sabayon Community Developers (which are community members first) maintain multiple repositories or packages of the Community repository." Additional information is available on the Sabayon Community Repositories website. The Sabayon project provides a range of editions, including builds for GNOME, KDE, MATE and Xfce. Additional information can be found in the project's release announcement. Download (pkglist): Sabayon_Linux_16.04_amd64_GNOME.iso (2,243MB, MD5, torrent), Sabayon_Linux_16.04_amd64_KDE.iso (2,671MB, MD5, torrent), Sabayon_Linux_16.04_amd64_MATE.iso (1,846MB, MD5, torrent), Sabayon_Linux_16.04_amd64_Xfce.iso (1,877MB, MD5, torrent).

Joost Ruis has announced the release of Sabayon 15.10, the latest monthly build of the Gentoo-based distribution available in GNOME, KDE, MATE and Xfce desktop flavours. This is Sabayon's first release that features KDE's Plasma 5 desktop, as well as a new system installer. From the release announcement: "As already pre-announced, we switched the default installer. Anaconda served us well, but we decided to embrace the community-baked Calamares, the distribution-independent installer. If you don't know it, check out their website. Also if it is young and some features are missing, it is lighter and more bug-free with respect to our old installer. The KDE edition now ships the new Plasma 5 by default. Since we had to put much effort in making a working release with Calamares, we had to ditch Steam Big Picture mode and Media Center installation options." Download links (torrents, pkglist): Sabayon_Linux_15.10_amd64_GNOME.iso (1,742MB, MD5, torrent), Sabayon_Linux_15.10_amd64_KDE.iso (2,001MB, MD5, torrent), Sabayon_Linux_15.10_amd64_MATE.iso (1,461MB, MD5, torrent), Sabayon_Linux_15.10_amd64_Xfce.iso (1,547MB, MD5, torrent).

Fabio Erculiani has announced the release of Sabayon Linux 14.05, the latest version of the Gentoo-based distribution available in GNOME, KDE and Xfce desktop flavours: "Sabayon 14.05 is a modern and easy to use Linux distribution based on Gentoo, following an extreme, yet reliable, rolling-release model. This is a monthly release generated, tested and published to mirrors by our build servers containing the latest and greatest collection of software available in the Entropy repositories. Sabayon developers have the funny habit of packaging all the latest stuff that is in the Gentoo repositories and make it available as soon as possible to our users. If you are looking for the latest KDE, GNOME or LibreOffice, the chances that it's in the repos already are very high." Here is the complete release announcement. Download (torrents): Sabayon_Linux_14.05_amd64_GNOME.iso (1,499MB, MD5, torrent), Sabayon_Linux_14.05_amd64_KDE.iso (2,061MB, MD5, torrent), Sabayon_Linux_14.05_amd64_Xfce.iso (1,265MB, MD5, torrent).

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